Ebook: The Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth
Author: Herzog Werner, Thompson Kirsten Moana
- Tags: Herzog Werner, 1942-, Criticism and interpretation, Motion picture producers and directors, Germany, Herzog Werner, 1942-, Motion picture producers and directors, Germany
- Series: Directors' cuts
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Columbia University Press
- City: New York, Germany
- Language: English
- epub
Werner Herzog is renowned for pushing the boundaries of conventional cinema, especially those between the fictional and the factual, the fantastic and the real. The Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth is the first study in twenty years devoted entirely to an analysis of Herzog's work. It explores the director's continuing search for what he has described as 'ecstatic truth, ' drawing on over Read more...
Abstract: Werner Herzog is renowned for pushing the boundaries of conventional cinema, especially those between the fictional and the factual, the fantastic and the real. The Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth is the first study in twenty years devoted entirely to an analysis of Herzog's work. It explores the director's continuing search for what he has described as 'ecstatic truth, ' drawing on over thirty-five films, from the epics Aguirre: Wrath of God (1972) and Fitzcarraldo (1982) to innovative documentaries like Fata Morgana (1971), Lessons of Darkness (1992), and Grizzly Man